Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phone rings. A voice tells Gondo that his son has been kidnapped: the ransom is 30 million yen. Ready to pay any price for his own son, Gondo then learns that the son of his chauffeur was taken by mistake, but the kidnapper wants the money, anyway. At stake is the lifestyle and financial future of Gondo, his wife...
...surprise--he has always been far more conservative on this issue than the majority of American Catholics. But by directing the Catholic clergy--many of whom strongly disagree with him--to censure all who fail to strictly abide by church teaching, he is throwing a divisive stake right down the center of American Catholicism...
...opposition is using student money for a perk which is entirely unnecessary," says second-year law student Erik A. Lindseth, who is the Council's parliamentarian. "There's a certain financial stake...
...Murdoch lighten his debt load than he began running again. The acquisition of STAR TV, which can reach an Asian audience of 13 million, potentially brings two-thirds of mankind within his direct-to-the-home satellite grasp. To help finance the deal, Murdoch is selling his 50% stake in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, one of the world's most profitable papers...
Risking serious money has been another matter. Since 1991, only 28 American companies have made new, direct capital investments in South Africa. More have joined the total of 419 firms that have set up low-risk, nonequity deals, which give them a presence in the marketplace but no substantial stake in the economy. Among them are information-technology companies such as Advanced Logic Research...